Trans Wrestler Mack Beggs Gets Booed After Winning High School Girls Title

It’s certainly not hard to occupy the headspace of a 17-year-old high school student, as we’ve all been there. We’ve all experienced high school for ourselves firsthand, in one way or another. But when it comes to the case of Texas-based 17-year-old Mack Beggs, that’s another story. All Beggs wanted to do was wrestle in the boys’ wrestling state championship. Texas law prohibits him from doing that, as you must wrestle as the gender on your birth certificate. Beggs is trans.

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Center. At the center of all of the conflict happening in this area in Texas… is a 17-year-old boy named Mack Beggs. According to The Washington Post, Beggs has always had dreams of being something bigger. Even prior to all of the controversy surrounding him and his recent triumph. Beggs said, according to the publication, “I want to be somebody… Somebody who does something - not just a page in a book. I want to be a book.”

Mackenzie to Mack. The publication reports that Mack’s decision to come out as trans to his grandmother gave him comfort and relaxed him. The Washington Post reports, “two years ago, Mack Beggs began taking supplements to begin his physical transition.” In a video he posted online, Beggs was said to comprehend what problems he may face in his wrestling endeavors, but his flame of desire was not put out by this hypothetical prospective trouble.

But. The prospective, hypothetical controversy became very real as Beggs’ body began to change. The Washington Post reports that coaches in the Dallas-Fort Worth area started hearing whispers of the boy’s growth. “He was strong and lean,” Kent Babb wrote for The Washington Post. “Coaches noticed an unmistakable strength advantage that hadn’t been there even a year earlier.”